#rm2k3

[punkitt-is-here]

This month I've been working on a visual novel I plan on releasing before September! Here's a screencap or two.

[hyperspacereverie]

Testing out a new feature from the rm2k3 maniacs patch to create dynamic terrain, in order to create secret paths and maps that change over time

Devlog #6 is up on our patreon!

[cornylove]

i played the mis-fits 2 demo by @stoic--rose and i thought it was pretty fun

the start of the game looked pretty rough cause the enemies really werent anything difficult, and im glad the random encounters were removed and instead overworld enemies are used and have their moving patterns and are optional mostly, as they give out a whole ton of exp and like eight minutes into the game you can beat the first dungeon and sneeze at it, the party becomes strong preeeeetty fast and only the catalyst factory seems to account for that, the enemies are funny looking guys though i gotta give them credit theyre pretty endearing and i loved reading their book of worms entries :) but imo the funnier moments are kind of relegated to optional content in the book of worms i wish there were more jokes and puns like there were in mis-fits 1, unless this game wants to take on a more serious and lore centric direction

the callbacks to mis-fits 1 genuinely got me giddy though i didnt expect it to be tied pretty directly like that i was assuming it was a separate world but no it connects and i genuinely squealed when i saw the robots i immediately caught on and was like CLYDE CLYDE CLYDE CLYDE HE WAS HERE THATS WHERE HE CAME FROM i do wish it was touched on a bit more given murphy is a historian or something like it i expected him to ramble about some trivia more since he seemed pretty invested in it all, surely he knows something about triders or the other mis-fits since he recognized marty on the tv, and also has that scrapped sketch of the cast in his room

oh but speaking of that i am pretty nosey and i opened the game file through rpg maker and had a blast seeing whats unused and whats to come

why is murphy green though

seriously why did he green out like that

the other two party members look promising! i really want to see uzivo theyre my favorite character judging from their abilities and their design, seeing brown and wilted florence also makes me scared for the future what will the writers gonna do to her :sideeye:

overall the demo showed me that theres the same passion put into the project as there was put into the previous game, even if flawed in some places i still totally respect what you are going for and i only want to see more, the message you left felt touching and very real and im sure if you keep going mis-fits will find its people and fanbase (hi thats me)

however

[jjjandhermusicbank]

CAT RPG by JJJ SOFTWARE LTD

Enter a cultist temple, and defeat the evil "BIG BAD!" (also known as Erzakht)

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a slightly updated and improved CAT RPG, my very first RPG Maker game. changing some dialogs and adding some mild extra content, and hopefully fixed up some severe game breaking bugs in the process.

[comfypixels]

Fantastic Horizons

[some-mother-series-fan]

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[hiomaiks]

Happy New Year!

Here's a bit of a WIP of something I was messing up back in the end of 2023 and only got back to at the end of 2024.

It's a bit going back to the plugin idea I made years ago but now into it's own game (also different rpgmaker version).

The initial menus were done using the dropped vocabr fangame idea, so here's some old pixelart from that project:

And now some for this new one:

It's going to be a hiomaikadex thing if I'm able to finish it rather than hiomaika standalone.

Old hiomaika game art vs new one so far.

[roshii-pix]

Default Actions

Not sure how comprehensible this will be, but hopefully it helps

im not great with rm2k3 so this is pretty unoptimised ):

Things needed:

Default animation (sitting in this case)

Default Switch (called [USE]None in this tutorial)

Variable for the button input (called Use Effect in this tutorial)

If the action is toggled, you will also need:

Toggle Switch (called Is Sitting in this tutorial)

Sprites in the final state of the action (sitting and standing in this case)

This will be a common event with a parallel process trigger and no condition switch

Sprites needed (visual demo):

Sitting (Called: “Full Yoshika Sheet Three alt, 7”):

(this is the most space efficient way of fitting them, at first i had left and right directions separately)

Standing (Called: “Full Yoshika Sheet, 1”):

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First, you'll need to set up key input processing for the key you'll use for the action:

(this is found on page three)

You will need a conditional branch for when the input variable is pressed (in this case it's the 1 button, so the variable will be equal to 11)

(This branch doesn't need an else statement)

Inside this branch, you will need another conditional branch to check if the Default Switch is on

(This branch also doesn't need an else statement)

Inside this branch (sorry there are so many nested branches T-T) you will need a conditional branch for the player's direction (unless the direction doesn't matter)

(This branch also doesn't need an else statement)

The final nested branch is for toggle effects and it checks if the toggle switch is off

(This branch does need an else statement)

For sitting down, you need to:

Set move route to Wait (I did 3x)

Hide player character

Change player sprite to sitting (or whatever your default is)

Show animation

Unhide player character

Set move route to Wait (repeat) (So the player can't move while sitting)

Set the input variable back to 0

Turn on the Toggle Switch

What it should look like:

The else section is used for standing up, and you need to:

Set move route to Wait (I did 3x)

Hide player character

Change player sprite to standing

Show animation

Unhide Player character

Set input variable back to 0

Turn Toggle Switch off

What it should look like:

You need to copy/paste this for each of the directions (don't accidentally paste it into the previous direction, it won't break the code or cause an error, but it'll not work for that direction)

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Future edit: If you use animations, it will show other weather and screen effects and there is no way to stop that. If you want to use effects then this is the best solution i have found so far:

very clunky to look at but it looks basically identical to using animations, just takes longer to program unfortunately.

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And then you're done :D

Hopefully it was understandable :3